Amanda Reid
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About me
I work in a pluralistic way blending a diverse range of psychotherapies. Working pluralistically means that I am adaptable in my approach. I seek to truly understand you and deliver a highly customised form of therapy to meet your unique needs and aspirations.
At the heart of my approach is developing a safe and trusting relationship with you. We go at your pace, allowing space for feelings to emerge and our understanding to grow.
As trust deepens and patterns become visible, we find the most effective pathway through therapy. I draw on an extensive and diverse range of therapeutic tools and techniques from:
Person-centred therapy – Respects you are the expert on your life, helping you open up as much as you are comfortable to, and creating the right therapeutic conditions for you to reconnect with your true self and activate your potential.
Experiential therapy – Taps into your innate body felt knowing, giving you profound clarity on what you truly want or feel, and deeper connection to intuition, decision-making capabilities, and creative problem-solving.
Emotion-focused therapy for individuals (EFIT) – Focuses on your emotions to reshape love or secure attachment, gently helping you overcome fear, heal trauma, and develop meaningful, lasting relationships.
Internal family systems therapy (IFS) – Attends to the complex system of inner parts or families within you, helping you resolve the tug-of-war in your mind, heal trauma, and rediscover your natural calm, creativity and clarity.
Inner Child therapy – Connects with the childlike aspects within you, helping you tend unmet childhood needs, heal emotional hurt, and reawaken your creativity and joy.
Psychodynamic therapy – Focuses on the unconscious motivations behind your present feelings and behaviours, helping you untangle from the past, gain insight, and reclaim your authenticity, intentionality, and purpose.
Coherence therapy – Unlocks the ‘emotional’ brain, helping you dispel unwanted feelings, thoughts and behaviours that seem entrenched and impossible to break.
We may bring storytelling, writing, art, drawing, photographs, mindfulness or breathwork into our work – or simply talk. The sessions are at your pace and what you feel comfortable with accordingly.
As we weave a customised form of therapy, we share what emerges out of our work at each turn, and together find the best way forward.
My first session
Beginning therapy can feel overwhelming. I offer a free 30 minute consultation which will help you decide if you’d like to work together. We can discuss what brings you to therapy and the outcomes you’d like to achieve, and you can ask me any questions you might have.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have trained extensively in a diverse range of psychotherapies and healing modalities, both Eastern and Western, and have more than 15 years of experience working in the field of well-being.
I spent several years in India living on immersive retreats to uncover the wisdom of Eastern approaches to mind-body-spirt wellbeing. I trained extensively in meditation, yoga and ayurveda. If you would like to support your therapy with practices to do at home, we can draw on a diverse range of mindfulness, yoga, meditation, and self-care methods to revitalise and strengthen your mind, body and spirit.
I studied Pluralistic Counselling at Abertay University, Dundee, graduating with an MSc in Counselling with distinction. I'm a registered member of the BACP., and I work with a diverse range of psychotherapeutic methods and techniques, such as:
- Person-centred approach
- Experiential therapy
- Emotion-focused therapy for individuals (EFIT)
- Internal family systems (IFS)
- Inner child therapy
- Psychodynamic approach
- Coherence therapy, formerly Depth-Orientated Brief Therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Mindfulness
- Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT)
- Transactional analysis (TA)
I am passionate about mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being. For me, learning is a life-long endeavour. I continuously evolve my practice and understanding and keep up to date with psychotherapeutic research and professional development.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
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